ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how the regulation of the everyday life on these building sites was related to wider transformations. These transformations toward a more flexible territorial arrangement of sovereignty, of production, and of social control did not take place in the socialist states. However, the contradictions that enforced these changes in the Western states were evident in the socialist states as well particularly in a project of such international scope as the pipeline construction. The chapter outlines the transformations of the territorial system in the 1970s, then introduces the pipeline project and discusses the regulation of everyday life on the building sites. The pipeline projects were also connected with a closer coordination of the policies of Western European countries in opposition to the policy of the US. Both these aspects translate as a challenge to bloc boundaries and the international order that questioned the role of the United States in Western Europe.
